Word: shields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...familiar blue sky behind the Warner Bros. shield grows dark. The clouds gain some menacing heft. A cumulus of urban steam shrouds the camera as it goes cruising for trouble in Gotham City. Nighttime is the right time for . . . Batman...
...heart of the probe are two perplexing questions. Have post-Watergate reforms designed to shield the IRS from political abuse unintentionally allowed corruption to flourish by exempting the agency from proper oversight? And is the agency, headless since Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs resigned at the height of the tax season last March, using those reforms to prevent the subcommittee from delving into the wrongdoing...
Star Wars. Bush and several of his top advisers view with skepticism Reagan's expensive vision of a high-tech shield from enemy missiles. The 1990 budget agreement cuts funding for the program to $4.6 billion from Reagan's proposed $5.9 billion...
...committed suicide. Aoki, 58, Takeshita's closest political aide for 30 years, slashed his wrist, neck and foot with a razor blade, then hanged himself with a necktie. As the man who had handled Takeshita's political finances, some newspaper commentators speculated, Aoki may have taken his life to shield the Prime Minister from possible criminal prosecution. But Aoki may simply have been following a long- standing Japanese tradition in which a servant accepts blame for his master's downfall by killing himself...
After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...